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A NEW THEORY OF 
EVOLUTION 


BY 


WILLIAM E. MANN 

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NORFOLK, MASS. 


“And ye shall know the truth, 

And the truth shall make you free. ” 


‘' Canst thou by searching find out God ? 

Const thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? ” 


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Copyright 1923 
BY 

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FOREWORD 


It has been the writer’s object in putting out this 
small book, to put in print as briefly as possible a 
theory of what force is, and how it works in creation. 
The writer believes that some of the younger class of 
scientists will be interested to put to test some of 
the views advanced, because, so far as the writer 
knows, some of them are put together in a new way. 

The writer is well advanced in years, had a common 
school education, has always lived and worked on the 
ancestral farm, which has a small sawmill attached, 
so has had a good opportunity for independent think¬ 
ing. 


Norfolk, Mass. William E. Mann. 


INDEX 


Chapter Page 

I Force, Matter, Molecules, Atoms. 1 

II Unbalanced Spirit Force. Electricity. 4 

III Intelligence of Force; Matter Solid, 

Liquid or Gas. .... 6 

IV Forming the Sun and Planets, and Their 

Motions. ...... 9 

V Radio Telephoning. Sunlight. . . 11 

VI Magnets. Heat and Cold, Cause of 

Wind and Storm. . . 15 

VII Force Has Intelligence. Origin of Plant 

Life.20 

VIII Intelligence and Mind in Plants and 

Animals. ..... 25 

IX Man’s Felt Wants. Food. 29 

X Pain. Sickness. Good and Evil. Drugs. 

Faith Cure. 32 

XI Habits and Their Formation. . 37 

XII Prohibition, Socialism and Labor Trou¬ 
bles. ...... 42 

XIII Treatment of Criminals, Ownership. 

What is a Thought ? . . . 47 

XIV Hypnotism, Miracle, Truth and Hon¬ 

esty. . . . 52 

XV What is Religion ? . 57 

XVI The World’s Peace Problem. . 61 

XVII A Summary. ..... 65 



A NEW THEORY OF EVOLUTION 


Chap. 1 

FORCE, MATTER, MOLECULES, ATOMS 

All Force of every variety in its last analysis is en¬ 
tirely invisible to any of our senses when disconnected 
with matter. Force then must be entirely of a spirit 
nature, and all we can know of its real nature is a mat¬ 
ter of careful thought and reasoning from what we can 
gather from the action of this spirit force as it is con¬ 
nected with matter. The best we can do then towards 
getting an idea of force is to study its actions as shown 
by the actions of matter; and make a theory about 
force that agrees with all such matter’s motions. 

Matter is a collection of molecules so small that we 
cannot see them, even with the strongest microscope; 
and these molecules are of many varieties, and by 
their own spirit force attraction for each other, they 
thus collect and form masses of matter of various 
kinds and sizes and distances apart in space. 

Each molecule is made by a collection of minute 
divisions of pure spirit; each such division contains 

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A New Theory of Evolution 


and permanently holds a very high grade of spirit 
force tension, which has a very strong attraction for 
every other such minute spirit atom or division; and 
as these minute divisions of spirit tension are at first 
scattered unevenly through space, and perhaps have 
different grades of force tension, then as they try to 
get together by their natural force attraction as near 
as they can without actual union, then the molecules 
of matter we have spoken of will thus be formed, which 
from the way they are formed, of these indestructible 
spirit tensions of spirit force, will also be practically in¬ 
destructible themselves. 

It is evident that the making of these minute spirit 
tensions must have been the beginning of all the creation 
we know of, and have taken an immense Intelligent 
Force to thus make them. We have used the words 
“tensions of force” instead of the words “circular mo¬ 
tion of force” for each spirit atom, because we hold 
that spirit force has no motion, but only different ten¬ 
sions, or influences of attraction for each separate ten¬ 
sion spot in space. 

We may say that Original Spirit Force by exerting 
itself to make these separate atomic tensions of force, 
and make them so that they do not radiate away such 
tension, put part of itself permanently out of its orig¬ 
inal balance; and that tensions of force so made, could, 
as we have said, come together more or less strongly 
by their own attraction for each other, and form the 
indestructible molecules of matter. 

It must be noted here that the part of Original 


Force, Matter, Molecules, Atoms 


3 


Force not used in making the force tensions of the 
atoms, occupies all the space of the universe in an 
even, and balanced, and a. quiet sensitive way, and is 
fully and instantly aware of every unbalanced force 
tension, and its doings that at any time takes place in 
all the universe. 

The different varieties of molecules thus formed by 
this collecting of different force tensions of spirit atoms 
would also hold different tensions of force attractions 
for each other, and as we have intimated, will form 
different combinations and kinds of matter when their 
natural selective affinity gets them near enough to¬ 
gether. 


Chap. 2 

UNBALANCED SPIRIT FORCE. ELECTRICITY 


From our theory thus far it is evident that the 
atoms of matter are made of unbalanced spirit force, 
and the molecules of matter are made from such at¬ 
oms, and that these molecules are by the force ten¬ 
sions and attractions given them by the spirit atoms, 
drawn and held together as common matter, either 
solid, liquid, or gas; so that matter can do nothing, 
not even exist, except from the continuous spirit force 
tension given continuously to it. 

We can have a theory that as only a part of Origi¬ 
nal Intelligent Spirit Force was used to thus make mat¬ 
ter and keep it in motion, that the part which was not 
so used, pervades all space, as we have said, in a 
quiet balanced condition, and is fully sensitive to ev¬ 
ery force tension of unbalanced force anywhere in the 
universe of space, the very instant it takes place; this 
is the same as saying that all space is fully and in¬ 
stantly alive to every thing, or motion, or thought, or 
force tension, that takes place in all the universe of 
space, as fast as it takes place. 

The words electricity and magnetism are words 

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Unbalanced Spirit Force. Electricity 5 

used by scientists to designate certain forces shown in 
connection with matter, but our theory here makes 
electricity and its magnetic accompaniment to be the 
same as all the known or active forces in all the uni¬ 
verse; and the amount or degree of this force or elec¬ 
tricity. in any spot can be accurately measured by its 
temperature. A good conductor remains cool when a 
large amount of electricity is applied to it, if it has 
proper end connections, because the electric spirit ten¬ 
sion can radiate away on such conductor without being 
hindered by the counter attractions which a so called 
poor conductor has. The best conductor has some 
hindrance, otherwise, an electric tension of force could 
go round the world as soon as it started, and not lose 
any of its force. 

Electricity being the same as all force, must be al¬ 
ways very active trying to find its balance, or harmony 
of action; and its partial successes have resulted in 
many high grades of organized matter, as plant and 
animal life, which we shall consider later. 

What is called an electric current is not a proper 
current, or stream, or mode of real travel; it is a 
spirit tension that continuously reaches the distance 
w r hile the tension lasts, and any instant tension lasts 
but that instant for any distance. 

More will be said about electricity later. 


Chap. 3 


INTELLIGENCE OF FORCE; MATTER SOLID, 
LIQUID OR GAS 

It will be seen that the first unbalance of Original 
Force is made more and more unbalanced, because of 
the matter which it made; for the matter being formed 
in different varieties, and each variety holding a differ¬ 
ent attracting force, would cause matter to be formed 
in all sizes of mass, and all distances apart, and each 
separate mass would be pulled in the direction of 
strongest attraction, so that all would seem to work 
towards what we might call a perfect chaos, but the 
fact that it has actually resulted as it has, proves that 
we have a right to put the word Intelligent to our Origi¬ 
nal Spirit Force; and even go further and say that ev¬ 
ery smallest force tension has its own corresponding 
piece of intelligence, at least enough intelligence to 
make its action fit its own law. 

We have said that all motions of matter were caused 
directly by attractions between spirit force tensions that 
get into such matter. The spirit atoms created a very 
high force tension in coming together to form the mole¬ 
cules of matter, yet probably losing no force them¬ 
selves; because of the peculiar way they were made, 
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Intelligence of Force; Matter Solid, Liquid or Gas 7 

and these molecules must have been formed very sud¬ 
denly, and be in the condition of very hot gas at first; 
heat being the measure of the force tension present. 

The separate spirit atoms came together thus 
strongly because of the immense attractive force they 
each had for each other, as we have said, but because 
of their varieties and different degrees of force ten¬ 
sion, there would be a natural selection, or we might 
say choice, in their first freedom of getting together, 
thus making as we have said, many varieties of matter. 
All. matter in any one of its three conditions—solid, 
liquid or gas—is obliged by the common law of force 
attraction to radiate any surplus or unbalanced force 
it may hold at any one time, so when these very hot 
molecules radiated away, outwardly, a large enough 
part of their heat or force tension, then their own 
natural chemical force attraction could bring these 
molecules together, and the nearer they get to touch¬ 
ing each other, the stronger would be such attraction; 
and if from any kind of movement any of them, of the 
right kind, were brought to actually touch each other, 
such ones would suddenly develop so strong a hold on 
the other as to make a quick grab, and a solid, hard 
mass of matter could result as hard as diamonds or 
hardened steel. 

We have to say here that owing to the fact of so 
many kinds and varieties of matter, and matter being 
formed as we have said, then there must be some grade 
of intelligence in all attractions of different tensions of 
spirit force that get into ‘any kind of matter, which 


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A New Theory of Evolution 


may be called intelligent, chemical affinity force at¬ 
traction, so that each variety of molecule has its own 
natural selective, chemical affinity for others of its own 
kind, and also for certain others of other kinds. 

If sufficient force tension or heat is given to a mass 
of solid matter, this force of chemical affinity which 
continuously holds its molecules together, will be over¬ 
come or crowded out by our added stronger force ten¬ 
sion, so as to allow the molecules to come apart; first 
to a melted state, then to a gaseous state. 

If we can apply or cause our heat or force tension 
to be quick enough, we would then have a real ex¬ 
plosion into gas. Some chemical combinations of mat¬ 
ter are so lightly held together, and have such a strong 
affinity for the oxygen gas of the air, that when once 
started with sufficient force tension in one spot to turn 
that spot into gas, then more heat is generated by this 
start, which increases so quickly that a true explosion 
takes place. The burning of fuel or the decay of any 
substance may be said to be a very slow explosion. 


Chap. 4 


FORMING THE SUN AND PLANETS, AND 
THEIR MOTIONS 

It may be asked: if all masses of matter have this 
drawing force tension of attraction for each other, why 
did not the whole universe of matter get into one mass 
instead of so many suns and planets and stars? The 
answer is natural and simple when we know that this 
force attraction makes the smaller and nearer masses 
move towards the larger ones, and as matter at first 
was in very small masses, of different sizes, and dif¬ 
ferent distances apart through the whole region of 
space, each mass larger or smaller would instantly be 
started in the direction of its strongest pull, and in¬ 
crease in speed till it met some other mass; each such 
meeting would cause a force tension at the spot of 
meeting equal to size and swiftness of travel of the 
two masses so meeting. It is plain that these masses 
would increase their motion all the time as we have 
said until they met another larger mass; and that if 
a mass which was pulled by side tension attraction, and 
had a high velocity of travel, and came fairly near a 
mass much larger than itself, then the strong pull of 
the very large mass for the swiftly traveling small 

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A New Theory of Evolution 


one, would stop the straight ahead travel of the small¬ 
er mass, and this small one would travel at the same 
speed only it would have to go in an even circle, of 
a certain balanced size, around this larger one, as our 
planets go round our Sun; and as there is no friction 
in space, circles of masses thus started will steadily 
continue indefinitely. These large bodies of matter, 
the sun, moon and stars and large comets have mostly 
found their balance of circular motion, but the smaller 
bodies, the meteors, have not, but are continually fall¬ 
ing into large masses as they got near enough to them 
in their travels. 

This universal attraction we have just alluded to, 
which is called the force of gravity, seems to be a sep¬ 
arate kind of force attraction from all other force at¬ 
tractions, because there are no other force tensions 
that can interfere with it, or change it in the least; 
and we think this is accounted for by saying that the 
origin and continuation of this force is all from the 
continuous force tensions of the spirit atoms that com¬ 
pose the basis of all matter, so that as no force that 
we know can interfere with the force tensions of the 
atoms, so no force can interfere with their natural at¬ 
tractive force for each other, except to weaken tht 
force by distance. 


Chap. 5 

RADIO TELEPHONING. SUNLIGHT 

Wireless telephoning is all accomplished by a right 
manipulation of spirit force tensions on metal con¬ 
ductors. A high tension of force or electricity is con¬ 
tinuously generated, which has a final close connec¬ 
tion by a good conductor with the ground, so as to 
keep things lively between the production of the force 
and the continued disposal of it. This force, instant 
by instant, as made, passes on conductors in such a 
way as to divide it into very high tensions, and very 
low tensions, with very great rapidity, which they 
term, wave frequency; then a sounding disc is arranged 
so that a voice vibration can be impressed instant by 
instant on these chopped up force tensions. At this 
place our conductors go through a vacuum, and in the 
vacuum our doctored force tensions are made to jump 
a short space, which produces a spark in the vacuum, 
which vacuum is pure spirit space, which exists through¬ 
out the universe, and which is perfectly sensitive in 
every part to every least force tension the instant it 
takes place. And this vacuum or quiet spirit of space 
is what some scientists call the “ether of space, : ” but 
this writer thinks the ether theory puts the explana- 

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A New Theory of Evolution 

tion of the radiations of force tensions further off; or 
in other words, it is an unreasonable explanation. 

The sparks which are made with the rapidity that 
the machine gives them, contain all the force tensions 
and varieties that will reach over to the machine we 
have for receiving them. And a contrivance to get the 
exact tensions which these sparks have, up high in 
the open, is all the sending they need, while all the 
force we have been using, except the spark, goes by a 
proper conductor to the ground. The vacuum and 
simple wire up into the open is necessary to get the 
full spirit tension of the spark up into the open. And 
the receiving apparatus has to have just such a wire 
high up in order to catch the tensions which the series 
of sparks have to give; and in brief we can say the 
receiving apparatus is as near like the sender as it can 
be made, except we may say it is used backwards. 

The question of time will remain unsettled, but 
it is so short that we may say we don’t care; but we 
can say that distance weakens its force, and so does 
the masses of matter and curves of the earth’s surface 
that are in the way of straight line influence, or reach; 
for as we have said this radio force does not travel, 
or have vibratory motion, only simply instantly 
reaches, and does this without friction, and space itself 
has no movement or vibration, it being composed of 
pure balanced spirit, except air or thin gases floating 
in it. 

It is evident that the sun has a continuous, and a 
terrific force tension, and has a natural chemical affin- 


Radio Telephoning. Sunlight 


13 


lty connection with all the planets of our system, be¬ 
cause all were made with the same kinds of spirit 
atoms. The sun exists in a vacuum, so does our earth, 
and so we can receive exactly what the sun has to give, 
by radio transmission, pure and simple, exactly as 
we send messages by wireless, only the sun’s machin¬ 
ery is an improvement on our present radio apparatus. 
The question of time for what the sun has to give out 
to us, to get to us, is probably not fully settled, but 
if it takes any time, it can be accounted for by the 
region of space, not being pure space, but having more 
or less of some form of matter obstruction in it. 

As to the sun finally radiating away so much of its 
force tension as to freeze out life on our earth, is some¬ 
thing that need not concern us, for millions of years 
would probably make no appreciable difference. It 
is very likely that our earth still retains some of its 
original force tension; and has a way of producing new 
force tensions by its own chemical action; but it must 
be plain that we are mainly dependent on the sun for 
enough active force tension to sustain high grades of 
organized matter. 

Light that comes to us from the sun is the radio con¬ 
nection we have with the sun, and it has a very rapid 
frequency or force tension, but in coming to us its 
force tension weakens with the distance, but its fre¬ 
quency tension remains the same till it meets our air. 
Scientists say light is composed of vibrations, and takes 
time to travel in space, but they cannot say that it 
really takes time in pure space, or what it is that vi- 


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A New Theory of Evolution 


brates; their ether of space, as we have said, only puts 
the explanation into a harder place. Light we can get 
from our earth material, requires enough force tension 
applied to the material to make it have enough force 
tension frequencies to make it at show at least red hot; 
and our eyes need to have the light receiving mechan¬ 
ism to detect light and its many reflections from any 
source. The reflection and radiation of light is entirely 
a thing of the same nature and general operation, as 
what a good radio receiver is. 

All this goes to show how close is the connection 
between every part of the universe, in all its largest 
as well as in its smallest things; and that the intelli¬ 
gent, selective, chemical affinity attractions that we 
have between force tensions, keep things very much 
alive and moving; and it will be worth our while to 
follow out still further what their attractive force ten¬ 
sions can do for us. 


Chap. 6 


MAGNETS. HEAT AND COLD, CAUSE OF 
WIND AND STORM 

What we call magnetism is one grade of chemical 
affinity force, pure and simple, and is one grade of 
electric tension. A piece of hardened steel by being 
placed in contact, in a right manner, with another 
magnet, can by affinity attraction become a magnet 
also; and it is a magnet because it is able to take and 
hold steadily a surplus spirit force tension from its 
environment, without friction or heat, because steel 
is a good conductor, and owing to our force tension 
law of attraction, there would be a continuous radia¬ 
tion of tension from the strongest tension end towards 
the weaker tension end; and this weaker tension end 
would hold, and continue to hold, the same tension as 
its outward environment, while the other end would be 
able to hold, without a show of added temperature, 
a higher force tension than its environment. 

We account for this ability of one end to hold more 
force tension than its environment by saying that car¬ 
bon combined chemically with iron — which makes 
steel—has a stronger attraction for force tension than 
its environment has, and so continuously collects and 
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A New Theory of Evolution 


continuously holds a certain amount of what we might 
term a surplus balance of force tension, above that of 
its environment; and as this surplus is continuously 
radiating away into general space from one end, then 
as steel is a very good conductor this coming and go¬ 
ing of extra force tension would naturally find a defi¬ 
nite direction in the steel mass, thus making its positive 
and negative poles, and in many ways is like a lamp 
wick, taking up oil from the end in the oil and carry¬ 
ing it to the other end that is using it up. But we 
must note that there is no real current or travel of 
this force tension anywhere, for as before said, all force 
tensions reach, and reach without wave motion or vi¬ 
bration or travel in every direction of less tension. 
Fdectric tension on a conducting wire, that has a good 
grounded end, gets its surplus force to the ground with 
a quiet, and nearly frictionless reach, and nearly in¬ 
stantly. 

All this shows that the body of the earth itself is 
a general storehouse for all grades, and kinds, and sizes 
of force tensions that concern us, and may we not say 
that it gives us all the force tensions that we need, 
and more than we can rightly use as yet; and that ev¬ 
erything must be very busy, many times in the right 
direction, and sometimes seemingly in the wrong di¬ 
rection. Now we are ready to go more into detail in 
a further application of our theory and explain some 
of the doings of force tensions in every day experiences 
and observations. 

We have said that heat and cold are an accurate 


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Magnets. Heat and Cold, Cause of Wind and Storm 17 

measure of all force tensions that are in any mass of 
matter, and also that all force tensions in matter are 
exactly the same as electricity; also that a stronger ten¬ 
sion place of electricity always try to get to the weaker 
place in a general effort to even up or balance; and that 
all the motions of matter in the universe are directly 
caused by this universal attempt of unbalanced force 
tensions, in their trying to thus even up, or balance; 
but owing to the friction and time used, by having mat¬ 
ter to deal with, then instead of our many different 
force tensions becoming fewer and nearer alike, they 
must become more numerous, and continue to have 
many more grades and varieties. And when we re¬ 
member that each variety or combination of matter has 
its own natural, intelligent, attractive, chemical affinity 
force for all other grades or compounds of matter, 
then we can expect something very busy in the world 
and an endless lot of it. 

A human body in a healthy condition carries a uni¬ 
form temperature of about 98 degrees, regardless of 
its environment; this is done by the machinery inside 
of the body; so that there is a continual difference of 
force tension between one side of the skin and the 
other, which obliges a continuous force agitation to 
take place in the tissue of the skin, which is a great 
help to the health and life of the body. 

If we ask the question: What makes the wind blow? 
We can easily apply our theory to explain it. The air 
is composed of three varieties of matter, each in a 
gas state and held in a mix together by their mutual 


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A New Theory of Evolution 


affinity attraction, and it is very easy for this air to 
get, and give away again other force tensions which 
it is obliged to get from its environment. The force 
tension which any area of air holds at any time i& 
accurately known by its degree of heat or cold. By 
the law of force tensions the tension of the warm air 
place will be drawn towards the cold air place, and 
the air being gas, and easy to move, will go with it, 
thus causing the wind to blow; and blow slower or 
swifter according to the amount of difference in tem¬ 
perature which exists where the wind is. We can also 
see that warm air will rise because high air is usually 
colder. 

The air can receive and hold force tensions easily, 
and can hold such tensions until brought into actual 
contact with cooler masses of matter or other air; and 
so when warm air and cold air meet, as their own at¬ 
traction makes them, then there is more or less of a 
violent mix that directly takes place, which action pro¬ 
duces more or less of other tensions, which might be 
described as bottled electricity or imprisoned force ten¬ 
sion; and in case the two air forces coming thus to¬ 
gether have a sufficient difference in their temperature 
or force tensions, then we can have any grade of thun¬ 
der storm, or tornado, or cyclone. 

No doubt, but that heat or force tension expands 
the air somewhat, thus making it lighter so it will 
rise, but we think that air gets most of its heat or force 
tension near the ground, and that it also goes up be¬ 
cause of attraction of the cold Or less tension above. 


Force Has Intelligence. Origin of Plant L ife 23 

trying, to make a lot of different rudimentary plant 
cells; each such cell having more or less of sufficient 
ability to use its own chemical attraction to add to 
itself more of its kind. In this way many varieties 
of single plant cells were formed, but as some did not 
develop enough, peculiar chemical affinity to add to 
themselves, such ones would not persist to live, but 
many that first started, could, by adding other cells, 
finally get a seed of some kind for a new plant. 

As there were so many different plant cells first 
formed, when the condition of soil and climate were 
just right, it is easy to see how by evolution of forces 
thus far, that some would die at birth, and some would 
evolve and flourish for a time, and then become ex¬ 
tinct when soil and climate did not fit; and others 
would evolve and exist as at present. 

We have said that each motion of matter has an 
intelligent spirit plan which is the cause of such mo¬ 
tion, and that chemical affinity attraction is the cause 
of forming each spirit plan. Each movement of mat¬ 
ter is a record of its spirit plan; and those spirit plans 
that adjust themselves harmoniously with their envir¬ 
onment can continue to survive and keep busy; and 
those which meet too much opposition have to quit 
sooner or later, which establishes the rule of the “sur¬ 
vival of the fittest.” It would seem that the seed of 
a plant contains a true spirit record of all the plant’s 
habits of growth, and of its chemical affinity peculiari¬ 
ties; and when such seed is placed in a proper environ¬ 
ment, such hidden habits of growth and chemical af- 


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A New Theory of Evolution 


finity peculiarities are able to collect from their en¬ 
vironment the same as its parent plant did, so as to 
grow a mature plant.. A proof of the theory of evo¬ 
lution is found in the fact that no two seeds of the 
same plant can grow their two plants to be exactly 
alike or exactly like the parent plant; no two seed¬ 
ling apples taste near enough alike so as not to easily 
detect the difference. 

We have seen how plant cells began to exist, which 
was at the time that force tensions and attractions 
had succeeded, to a certain good extent in grinding 
up masses of matter which had been formed at the 
beginning, and dissolving and pulling apart, to a cer¬ 
tain extent the union of the different varieties of mole¬ 
cules of this matter; each new division of matter mak¬ 
ing a new variety of chemical affinity force, and so all 
the time getting finer and finer grades of chemical 
affinity, and more and more kinds of low grades of 
organized and mixed matter, until low grades of many 
varieties of single plant cells formed; and as we have 
seen many of these original cells were able to evolve 
and develop through the working of their affinity at¬ 
traction so as to make all the varieties of plants we 
have now; and Burbank and others are able to use 
nature’s laws so as to very much improve these va¬ 
rieties, and this is done by mixing the blossoms, for 
the blossoms make the spirit plan for the new plant, 
and also put such plan into the seed while it is grow¬ 
ing, and then the seed carries this plan to the new 
plant. 


Chap. 8 

INTELLIGENCE AND MIND IN PLANTS AND 
ANIMALS 

We can have a good commonsense theory that ani¬ 
mal life began in the same general way as plant life; 
the only difference being a higher grade of chemical 
affinity action, which action as we have said, is a con¬ 
tinual pulling of old things to pieces and putting them 
together again in a new and improved way. The old 
things pulled to pieces that helped begin the first cells 
of animal life were disorganized and digested plant 
life. 

Plants get their sustenance by staying in one place 
in the soil, and their leaves are their lungs for air, and 
the soil is their stomach and bowels for food, but ani¬ 
mals carry their stomach and lungs with them, and 
get up and get their food where they can find it. Ani¬ 
mals have a force pump to circulate their digested food 
supply to all parts of the body, so that each part’s 
peculiar chemical affinity can get what it needs for 
growth and repair; while the plant gets its food from 
dissolved, or digested soil products which its roots 
take as sap, and by capillary attraction, which is 
one form of affinity attraction, circulates to the leaves 
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A New Theory of Evolution 


and where else needed; the leaves giving what we 
might call plant life to the sap, which makes the sap 
able to respond to the affinity wants of the different 
parts of the plant. 

The light and warmth radiating from the Sun, which 
are really force tensions, with the air that surrounds 
the leaf, together with the spirit plan of the plant, 
form some very delicate affinity forces that in turn 
affects the sap, in the leaf and blossom, and gives that 
which we call plant life to the leaf, as we have said, 
and the leaf gives it to the plant, and to the new spirit 
plan of the blossom, and the blossom gives it to the 
spirit plan of the seed. The giving in every instance 
being by a high grade chemical affinity tension at^ 
traction; so that what we call life for plant or animal 
is pure spirit tension which has been able to collect 
together in a harmonious way such a group of matter 
as it can manage by using its own chemical affinity 
force tensions in an orderly, natural law, way. 

We have now to consider the existence of mind in 
animals. We have held that each minutest force ten¬ 
sion has enough subconscious intelligence to do what 
it is obliged by its own laws to do, and that by these 
orderly workings of unbalanced force tension attrac¬ 
tions, we have been able to make plant and animal 
material and growth; and if each force tension in mat¬ 
ter has a subconscious intelligence to fit its doings, then 
the finished plant or animal has enough subconscious 
intelligence to make them do as they do. We may 
say that this subconscious intelligence of animals is 


Intelligence and Mind in Plants and Animals 27 

so high a grade in some animals as to come very near 
if not quite, some grade of real conscious intelligence 
or knowledge. The grade of either conscious or sub¬ 
conscious intelligence, agrees with the grade of the ani¬ 
mal. 

Now we say that mind in man is the same as con¬ 
scious intelligence, and nothing but death separates the 
mind from the body, and nothing separates the subcon¬ 
scious intelligence of a growing tree from the substance 
of the wood, except death of the tree, or a total failure 
of the tree’s -force tensions to operate. This shows 
that what we call life, is really a spirit intelligence, 
first making varieties of matter, and then using these 
varieties to make organizations, by a plan which spirit 
intelligence also makes, and so the life of any organiza¬ 
tion is pure spirit working in and with such organi¬ 
zation; and when for any reason this spirit intelligence 
quits such organization, then of course, we have death 
for that grade of organization of matter, and its orig¬ 
inal spirit plan has stopped working in, or with it. 

Now what becomes of a spirit plan, which was able, 
by its own spirit affinity attractions to collect from its 
environment, sufficient fine material to make a body 
and brain, and nerves, and conscious mind and all the 
other things that form a whole man in the flesh, when 
such spirit plan quits the body? If our theory of the 
origin of creation is correct, then we have to say that 
this spirit plan of an individual will continue to con¬ 
sciously exist in a spirit condition, but without having 
what we have called affinity force tensions, because 


28 A New Theory of Evolution 

it is freed from matter; and time and space have noth¬ 
ing to do with a spirit plan, for it is the freest thing 
possible; it can probably do anything which it can pos¬ 
sibly wish to do, with no known limitations, and will 
do in its freedom what it feels to be for its own in¬ 
terest, as it tried, more or less successfully to do while 
in a material body. If this spirit plan has any trouble 
in its spirit freedom, it is sure we can have no idea or 
imagination of what it would be about; but there does 
not seem to be any reasonable reason why the plans 
troubles and mistakes while working in a material 
body under stiff affinity force tensions, should be car¬ 
ried with it in a way to make more trouble; but 
by our universal law of evolution, it might be reason¬ 
able to infer that this spirit plan could use its troubles 
of the past in a useful way to really perfect itself in 
the fullest way. 

It is evident that the future state is an open ques¬ 
tion and every one is free to make his own theory, 
and of course every one will be obliged sometime to 
find out the real facts in the case. But leaving the 
distant future, which common sense and an applica¬ 
tion of our affinity force attraction make it improbable 
that the future can, at the most, be any worse than 
the present; and also that by our law of evolution 
it is most likely to be very much better than the pres¬ 
ent, let us give some attention to man’s doings and in¬ 
terests at present. 


Chap. 9 

MAN’S FELT WANTS. FOOD 


A normal man is a bundle of felt wants, with a work¬ 
ing body, which has the ability by its exertions to get 
some of the things he thus wants. The growth of 
his body is the result of the subconscious wants of the 
spirit plan of his birth. The spirit plan of his birth 
was a result of the union of the spirit plans of his two 
parents; and this plan in a proper environment, can 
by its felt wants, or affinity attractions, get to itself 
a material body to partly fit this plan. And it is a 
guess as to how near anyone really succeeds to fill 
out this plan thus made for him. 

It must be plain that every individual works o 
plays all his waking hours to get all his felt wants 
that he can. There are a great many individuals in 
the world, especially in the crowded cities, and this 
one world is their only feeding trough, so, of course, 
there must be more or less crowding and contention 
between different individuals, and groups, and nations, 
while seeking what they thus want. 

We may say there is one universal truth applicable 
to every live individual existence whether plant, ani¬ 
mal or man, which is, that none can have a felt want 
except their spirit plan calls for it in a conscious or 
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A New Theory of Evolution 


subconscious way; and that none can choose to really 
work for what they do not feel to want; or in other 
words; no one can have an incentive to exertion ex¬ 
cept from their own felt want and self interest as seen 
at the time of willing or choosing; and by using our 
theory of force action which we have already shown, 
it must be logically plain that no one can be said to 
have a free will or choice; when all things are con¬ 
sidered; for we are obliged to choose in the direction 
of our felt wants, and our felt wants are a mathematical 
resultant of all the forces that touch us, instant by in¬ 
stant; even all our conscious mind and thinking is 
really a mathematical resultant of the different forces 
and influences that meet in us. But is must be noted 
here that man has better reason to trust this view of 
nature’s laws, as we have tried thus far to explain, 
than the usual conception of a God separated from 
matter. 

One of our earliest felt wants is food, and a good 
part of the active force of the race is spent in getting 
it. The application of our theory as to what consti¬ 
tutes good food for man, and as to how it works, will 
be briefly stated. The highest grades of vegetable or 
animal organizations of matter, used before decompo¬ 
sition has taken place, makes the best food; and most 
of these products are improved by cooking. The want 
of food is first a subconscious want, caused by the 
body’s strength having been used up by the body’s ac¬ 
tivities in ordinary living. 

All good food tastes good to all persons w'ho are 


Man’s Felt Wants. Food 


31 


healthily hungry; the taste is a very high grade of our 
universal affinity attraction, which works between the 
tongue and the peculiar substance of the food; and 
if the taste is not good the person is either sick or not 
hungry. After the food leaves the mouth there is no 
more conscious taste of it, but all the way through 
the body there is a subconscious taste to it in a healthy 
person; and every part of the digestive tract has its 
own particular affinity attraction in regard to the food 
as it passes on; even to the extent of taking such part 
of it as has been rightly digested, through thin mem¬ 
branes and tubes into the circulation of the blood, 
and the blood’s circulation depends on its affinity for 
the muscles of the heart which stimulates these mus¬ 
cles to contract and so act as a force pump to drive 
the blood all through the body; thus giving the vari¬ 
ous parts of the body an opportunity by affinity at¬ 
traction to select from the blood such nourishment as 
the several parts feel to need. 

A person’s growth and upkeep depend on all this 
nice machinery keeping all its parts in careful working 
order, and if any part fails to do as it should, we have 
more or less trouble and sickness. Pain and sickness 
are the only way we can consciously know that our 
bodily machine is not working right, and rightly looked 
at, are, a good thing for us, for they are simply a 
danger signal, asking us very plainly to “look out.” 


Chap. 10 

PAIN. SICKNESS. GOOD AND EVIL. DRUGS. 
FAITH CURE 

Pain in an individual body is an antagonism of 
affinity forces in his body, which do not agree with the 
individual’s spirit plan of his body. It is the writer’s 
theory and belief that there is absolutely no help in 
mending or curing any antagonistic set of force ten¬ 
sions by the addition of more antagonistic force ten¬ 
sions, even temporarily; for killing or numbing a nerve 
to stop pain, is not in itself a cure at all, or even a 
real help, but a real hindrance instead. 

We have many kinds of doctors, and if our theory 
here is correct, those who give least drugs, and who give 
their strongest study to give nature’s health laws the 
principal place, and who are really afraid to interfere 
with nature in any antagonistic way, will have the 
best success. It is the writer’s experience and observa¬ 
tion that those who have made a careful study of na¬ 
ture’s laws, have got a stronger trust in them by so 
doing. And that trying to harmonize antagonism of 
forces by the addition of more antagonistic force can 
never succeed for the antagonistic part always works 
in the wrong direction as long as it lasts. The world 
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Pain. SicJ^mss. Good and Evil. Drugs. Faith Cure 33 

war has been a large object lesson of this matter of 
using antagonistic force, for anyone who gives it un¬ 
prejudiced thought. But we shall have occasion to re¬ 
fer to the war later. 

The strong influence for good over bad bodily con¬ 
ditions which come to such conditions from simple 
affirmations of good, or as it is called, auto-suggestion, 
go to show our theory is likely to be correct. 

We ought here to speak of the two terms: Good and 
Evil, and apply our theory to them. All force ten¬ 
sions must be good ones in themselves as far as they 
go, because they are each an exact mathematical re¬ 
sultant of preceding force tensions; when antagonism 
shows up it is because some one or more tensions were 
lacking in order to have affinity harmony. The trouble 
or socalled evil resulting from the lack of sufficient 
harmonious force, was all caused by the working of 
such good forces as were present, while the part of 
the force which was lacking or not there, but which 
was needed to make a harmonious combination, was 
the same as non-existent, for it did nothing in the 
transaction. So, if we try to separate so called evil 
from good, we shall have to say that when really sep¬ 
arated the so called evil becomes nothing but a name, 
with no force to do anything; and so as we have said, 
such good as is present does all that is done. Good 
and Evil can be rightly compared to light and dark; 
what is dark? What can it do? It may be said that 
dark has influence to scare a child, but we say it was 
not the dark that scared it, but the child’s nerves and 


34 


A New Theory of Evolution 

imagination. Could a room full of the darkest dark 
have the very least effect on the next room by opening 
the door? If the absence of light has no power or in¬ 
fluence on light, then the absence of light may be reck¬ 
oned as non-existent so far as anybody or anything 
is concerned, and that the amount of light present is 
all that really does anything. So with good, evil is 
only the absence of good in the situation, and if any¬ 
thing is done by what we call a bad or wrong act, it 
is done by the imperfect good that is present. 

It must be plain from our theory thus far that the 
words “good” and “evil” as we usually use them, are 
relative terms, and that every combination of force 
tensions must of necessity have more or less imper¬ 
fections or want of harmony of action, and would be 
said to have something wrong or evil about them. So, 
then it is impossible to separate good and so called evil 
in this world which is governed in a fixed way by 
orderly and intelligent force tensions. 

The theory of our good Christian Science people, 
that evil does not exist, is true if rightly looked at. 
The difficulties of our religious beliefs have always 
been in trying to make two separate forces in the 
world and called them good and evil. The writer 
thinks our theological seminaries would make a great 
gain if they would give some real solid thought, to 
solidly make up their minds on what good and evil 
really are, and not stick so close to the old ways. 

We have already applied our theory to drugs, given 
as medicine to cure wrongly bodily conditions, but 


Pain. Sickness. Good and Evil. Drugs. Faith Cure 35 

serum, vaccination, and microbe infection should not 
be overlooked. 

It is the belief of the writer that if the teachers 
of the medical schools would just drop their natural 
prejudices and bookstuff for a little while, and give 
some good, solid, honest study to Nature’s extremely 
nice and delicate affinity attractions, by which the 
body lives and helps its balance of health and growth, 
and an ability to work hard every day, that such 
teachers to be really afraid to treat these delicate force 
tensions held by the nerves, in the rough way which 
they do. And in thus studying they might find that 
serums and vaccination, (with drugs, of course), are 
the same to the human body as a common screw driver 
would be in trying to fix a watch. 

All serums injected are really poisons, and show a 
poisonous effect if carefully observed; vaccination virus 
is practically a serum, and very poisonous; for accord¬ 
ing to our theory of antagonistic force, all substances 
that antagonize any force tensions anywhere in the 
body, are poisonous; and our theory throughout is: 
let poison and antagonistic force alone, in all dealings 
with our neighbor or ourself. 

Microbes which have become infected themselves 
from contact with other infection, may have more or 
less ability to attach to any person, and have some 
effect to give such infection to the person, but if such 
person has a good degree of health, the poor microbe 
would find it couldn’t do much. The writer ventures 
to say that stranger things come to pass than that ten 


36 


A New Theory of Evolution 


years from now (1923) it will have been proved that 
a considerable part of the shell shock and epilepsy of 
our soldier boys, was the result of vaccination, and 
serum injection for the attempted prevention of ty¬ 
phoid fever. 

Auto suggestion, or simple mental affirmations, have 
been spoken of, as a great help to cure bad conditions. 
It will be hard to find any way that these good per¬ 
sonal wishes could have any antagonistic effect on 
any part of the body; and all the force they may 
have must be in the direction of real help to the bodies 
internal machinery; and we cannot measure the calm¬ 
ing effect for good which good and hopeful, and patient 
wishes may have. 


Chap. If 

HABITS AND THEIR FORMATION 


The question about habits seems to come next for 
consideration. This is a very large question and we 
shall have to treat it as have others in our discussion, 
more or less briefly. 

The word as commonly used in human and animal 
action, means a repetition from time to time of the 
same act, but as applied to all other action, it must 
mean that every act or motion of matter is a repeti¬ 
tion of the same act, instant by instant, as long as the 
act lasts; even a mass of matter laying still in one 
spot, has the repetition of the acting of laying still, 
instant by instant, until it starts to move, and so has 
a habit of laying still. 

Now in a broad way every least motion of matter 
of any kind, keeps its motion and its habit until 
changed by meeting some other force; this fact is the 
strongest proof which we have, that matter can do 
nothing till spirit force gets into it. Even the force 
of gravitation that one mass of matter has to make 
it pull other small masses towards it, needs the con¬ 
tinuous force tensions that are in the spirit atoms which 
make the molecules of matter. There are all degrees 
of simplicity and complexity in all motions and habits, 

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38 


A New Theory of Evolution 


and affinity force tension; and the complexity is all 
the time increasing as creation and evolution progress. 
A simple, single motion or habit lasts but an ijnstant, 
but as we go up in the scale of complexity, and get 
matter organized into plants and animals, we have 
a very large situation to consider; and it is safe to 
say that the higher we go in the organization of mat¬ 
ter, then the longer and more persistent will be such 
organization’s habits of action. We can say from this 
that evolution itself is a development and survival 
of such habits of organized material motion, as had 
the strongest combination to persist, or exist. 

We have seen that very finely ground and dissolved 
matter with its many mixed varieties, was able to hold 
very fine and delicate spirit force, affinity attractions, 
which enables these mixed molecules to form many 
compounds, and none of them exactly alike; and that 
in this way habits of action began to multiply, and 
each advance held, till a stronger and better took its 
place; for we must remember that every habit of ac¬ 
tion lasts till stopped by a stronger one. 

We have said, every motion of matter has a spirit 
plan to fit such motion, and obliges the matter thus 
to move; so every habit must have a plan to fit it and 
make it. All varieties of plant cells thus began in 
a very small way at first, and developed as we have 
said, and the blossom of the plant contains an exact 
record both of the plan and the habits of growth, and 
therefore the exact spirit plan for a new plant, and 
the seed growing from this blossom, is able to connect 


Habits and Their Formation 


39 


the spirit plan of such plant with the material of the 
soil, and so by the seed’s affinity force attractions, be 
able to grow a new plant as near like the old, as its 
environment will permit. The same line of reasoning 
will fit the animal kingdom, and even the body, mind, 
and conscious will of man. 

In a general way, according to our theory, as man 
has the highest organized combination of matter, and 
fc rce affinity tensions, or attractions, then he has the 
greatest variety, and complexity, and strongest per¬ 
sistency of habits, that we know, of organized matter; 
and therefore, the highest spirit plan at the time of his 
starting to grow. This spirit plan by which an indi¬ 
vidual starts to grow, or take on a material body, can¬ 
not be changed as a plan; but this plan is of necessity 
always hindered very much by the antagonism of its 
environment. This all means that no one is able to 
fully, or even very nearly, carry out the spirit plan 
which his parents and nature’s laws made for him; 
and from the part he is able to carry out, we must 
believe that the real spirit plan of every person is al¬ 
ways a very high and good one; and if such plan can¬ 
not be changed, but only hindered by present forces, 
then there comes in the question of the distant future, 
as has already been referred to. And this must be left 
to each one’s best guess. 

It may be well to briefly look at some of the ways 
our spirit plan is hindered in its efforts to materialize. 
The body grows, as we have said, by its delicate, sen¬ 
sitive, affinity attractions, for such parts of good food 


40 


A New Theory of Evolution 


as they get a chance at; but not all food is good that 
seems to be, and so the machinery of digestion is un¬ 
able to do a good job, and this is a hindrance to the 
balanced health of the growing person, therefore a 
hindrance to his spirit plan. 

But worse things come when more good food is 
taken than can be properly taken care of; this happens 
often, and in this case the body is poisoned by the 
decomposition of the part not digested. Sugar is dan¬ 
gerous in this respect. Then we have many substances 
that have a peculiar affinity for the average person’s 
bodily machinery, which have an effect on the nerves 
and feelings, but which have little or no value to give 
real help to the body. And this is because they get 
into the blood circulation without being properly di¬ 
gested, so their real influence on the whole is injurious. 

Everyone knows a long list of such substances. Tea, 
coffee, tobacco, and alcohol may be said to be the 
principal ones. Such stuff as opium and other strong 
drugs may be said to be perfectly awful, throwing the 
delicate balance of the affinity force tensions of the 
body into all grades of unbalance, and loss, and change. 
It goes without saying that a beginning of the use of 
any of these, soon becomes what we call a habit; and 
their use as medicine will also start a habit. It may 
be said that those who have any such habits, really 
have considerable of a reason for it, but the writer’s 
idea is that the time is not very far distant when at 
least a majority will find out that it is for their own 
personal interest to let all such things entirely alone; 


Habits and Their Formation 


41 


when this takes place, of course, they will drop their 
use, but until they can very plainly see that it is for 
their own personal interest not to use them, they will, 
of course, continue their use, because they can see 
only the gratification of their own animal appetite. 


Chap. 12 


PROHIBITION, SOCIALISM AND LABOR 
TROUBLES 

This brings us to the principle of prohibition. The 
v/ord means “thou shalt not,” and all the force it can 
use toward anyone in a prohibitory way is an antagon¬ 
istic force. We have already mentioned the futility 
of using antagonistic force between man and man, as 
well as using antagonistic force in trying to cure dis¬ 
ease. Our theory here gives us the following rules in 
the matter: Antagonistic force used between man¬ 
kind, or between animals of the same species, results 
in a loss just double the amount of the antagonistic 
part of the force, without any exception known to the 
writer; and in case of being between animals of different 
species, the strongest one wins, and the weakest one 
bears as loss much more than the strong one gains, so 
that there is really a balance of loss in the transaction 
equal to more than the amount of antagonism really 
used. 

It is a very great question today whether there is 
any better way, that the race knows enough to properly 
use, to cure or help the damage caused by the use of 
alcoholic drink than that of antagonistic force. The 

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Prohibition , Socialism and Labor Troubles 


43 


writer feels sure that there is a better way, but that up 
to the present it has never had a fair trial, and that the 
time for its successful trial by a government law has 
not yet come, for in order to give it a fair trial it would 
be necessary to repeal all laws against the making or 
using of intoxicating liquors and use education and 
moral suasion and kindly patient treatment instead. 
The writer feels sure that this last way will finally have 
to be tried before the evil of rum is mended; and that 
it will never be even really helped by antagonistic force, 
and that any temporary gain made by forced prohibi¬ 
tion in one direction is more than lost in some other 
direction. 

It must be plain that the antagonism of a prohibitory 
law cannot be used at the same time that moral suasion 
and education and patience are used; it would be like 
handcuffing a man for not doing what we wished him 
to do, and then by kindness and patience try to per¬ 
suade him to do what we wanted him to do, while 
keeping the handcuffs on. 

We ought to apply our theory to what is called prof¬ 
iteering; to the one who takes a larger profit in his 
business than he ought, and the workman who takes 
advantage of things to get more wages than he ought; 
also to the employer who takes advantage of a situa¬ 
tion to give his workmen too small wages. Our theory 
is, that there is a close spirit force connection between 
each and every part of matter, and motion, and thought 
in the universe; which force exactly agrees with and 
causes all such motion and thought. And that the 


44 A New Theory of Evolution 

strength of this connecting force increases in any 
organization, as fast as such organization increases in 
perfection. 

We have agreed that the human race is at the top 
notch of organized creation, and are fast increasing 
their general smartness and knowledge therefore, the 
affinity force between its units has become very strong 
now, and is fast getting stronger. Also we must 
remember that the nearer people get to each other, the 
stronger will be their connecting influence. 

There are not many ways that people get nearer 
together than in buying and selling, and doing business 
with each other; the main object in doing business is 
to get some money, and with it, get what else is wanted. 
Each individual, though very closely connected with 
others, has his own particular and personal wants and 
self, interest to look out for, and these personal felt 
wants of the individual are the only force and incentive 
which he has to make him choose to work for any¬ 
thing; for as we have said, a person cannot voluntarily 
choose to exert himself for anything unless he can 
somehow see it to be for his self interest. 

The obvious conclusion from all this is that some 
way must be contrived to make a person see plainly 
that it is for his own interest to have a sympathetic 
regard for the one he is dealing with, if profiteering is 
to be cured. This is a difficult thing to do, for it is a 
matter for natural evolution to do; only a few have 
evoluted far enough at present to only about half way 
see it. 


Prohibition , Socialism and Labor Troubles 45 

The word Socialism covers many human devices, 
which may be said to have for their object the putting 
of more stress on community interests than on the indi¬ 
vidual’s interest, and to stop monopolies and profiteer¬ 
ing. The working of natural human forces have 
obliged what we call Socialism to come into being as a 
general offset or balance for what we may call 
individualism. Individualism was the original “ism” of 
the race, and it took an absolute monarchy to enable 
the race to live together; then they became enough 
civilized to have a poor grade of democratic form of 
government as at present, and it is a poor grade, 
because the average citizen has not yet learned what 
his true self interest in connection with his neighbor 
really is, as we have before said. As the individual 
comes more and more to knowing wherein his self 
interest lays, then to that extent will Socialists and 
individualists agree, and agreement is the main thing. 

All this theory and reasoning will exactly apply to 
capital and labor troubles, and to all other disagree¬ 
ments between nations and individuals. 

What has been said of Socialism thus far has had 
special reference to attempts and plans for new parties 
in government, but in its broadest sense it includes the 
very idea of government itself, so there are as many 
kinds of Socialism as there are kinds of government, 
and plans of government, and the whole question of 
politics may be said to be different plans for 
government. 

Government itself is obliged by natural laws to exist 


46 


A New Theory of Evolution 


so as to curb and restrain the freak things which the 
individual is liable to do, when pushed by his felt wants, 
he interferes with the wants of others. What we may 
call individualists have a plan to get on together with¬ 
out any government or law at all and trust each other 
to get on all right through using common sense between 
themselves. Anarchists are another name for them; 
and they also have a plausible reason for their plan of 
government; but as we have repeatedly said, it will not 
work till the individuals have become more developed. 



Chap. 13 


TREATMENT OF CRIMINALS, OWNERSHIP. 
WHAT IS A THOUGHT? 

Governments need to have considerable machinery 
to manage or restrain the freaks of active humanity; 
laws with penalties for breaking them, being a large 
part of their machinery. This brings up the question 
of how to treat a law-breaker. A law of any kind, 
anywhere, must have a penalty of some kind attached 
to it, to make it a law. The penalty of a fine is an easy 
way of treating any case; so is confinement in a jail; 
sentence of steady labor is not so easy, but it would be 
much the better way of the three, and if managed right, 
would be somewhat profitable for the government, and 
also much better for the criminal, than to be idle. We 
think it is for the interest of a civilized community to 
entirely drop the idea of punishing a criminal, and treat 
him in his confinement as well as common sense will 
allow, even to do as much for him as to learn him to 
read and write, or some good trade; young offenders 
should not be mixed up with old ones. The general 
rule to follow in the matter, we think, is that of trying 
to reform the criminal instead of punishing him; and let 
it be done in such a way as that the criminal himself 
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A New Theory of Evolution 


is not deceived as to the good motives his keepers have 
in what is done for him. This is in accordance with 
the principle running through all we have said, that we 
ought to avoid using antagonistic force in every possible 
place. 

Now let us take the word ownership, and look at 
some of its meanings. The legal possession of personal, 
or real estate, or money, or securities for money, is the 
usual meaning for ownership, but it is the broader 
meaning of ownership or possession that we wish to 
look at here. No one can really own a million dollars; 
only the part which one can actually and beneficially 
use of the million can be truly owned by him, the part 
he could not directly so use may be said to be truly 
owned by others who did make the right use of it. The 
part of this million that is rightly used in any kind of 
business is owned by the business. Honest banks and 
bankers can own a small part. 

The part of any property that is wrongly used by 
anyone, is not really owned by such user. Anyone 
who gets any benefit from a near or remote result of 
the use of any part of the million, has that much 
ownership in it. A person who steals a million dollars 
and gets safely way with it, owns it just as really as 
if it were given to him in a will; and the one from whom 
it was stolen lost what ownership he may have had in 
it, just as really as if it had been sunk in the ocean. 

A person who has a sentimental appreciation for a 
spread out landscape may be said to have some real 
ownership in those acres of land, and by what we have 


Treatment of Criminals. What is a Thought ? 49 

said, the farmer who holds a deed of it might be so 
situated as to be unable to make any real beneficial use 
of it, and then he would not really own it at all. A 
person’s closest and best ownership he can have is his 
own personality; and from our present view of true 
ownership, he can only own the part of his body which 
is normal and alive and healthy; the parts that may 
be lacking do not really exist, and so cannot be owned 
or utilized by anyone. We can also say that anything 
in creation that a person’s felt wants have an affinity 
for is to that degree owned by the person, whether he 
is successful in getting it or not. It is evident that we 
are practically saying that all real ownership belongs 
to our mind and will and felt wants, and that the value 
of matter is only secondary; and that there is no real 
value or ownership except of the real useful, beneficial 
and good part of things that we actually make good 
use of. 

From what we have said, the true knowledge we 
have learned by our own study and experience must be 
the best thing we own, and the more cost and trouble 
we have had in getting it, the larger is our degree of 
ownership in it. That which costs little to get is of 
little value, and is loosely held. 

We now want to turn our attention and theory, as to 
what thoughts are; thoughts are spirit photographs 
which a live sensitive brain is able by its sensitive 
affinity attraction to take from its environment. The 
brain needs to be well connected with a sensitive 
healthy body to get correct photographic thoughts. 


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Our theory is that there is One Great Thought or Ocean 
of Thought, which permanently contains all past 
thoughts and all possible future ones; and that which 
we call a thought is such a part of this ocean of thought 
as fits the person’s brain, and nerve connections of the 
body; sensitive affinity attraction does this. 

By the way every one is made they are obliged to 
keep up a line of thought all their waking hours, and a 
line of dreams all their sleeping hours; although many 
of the dreams are not conscious, or remembered ones. 
What we have said thus far of waking thoughts have 
referred to conscious thought, but there is a lower 
grade of thought that comes to a person in the same 
way, that the person is not conscious of, which is 
usually termed subconscious thought. Conscious 
thought has mostly to do with the felt wants and choices 
and wills of the individual, while the subconscious 
thoughts have most to do with regulating and pushing 
the body’s machinery. If our general theory thus far 
is correct, then a thought or a line of thought by any 
person will always exist, space and time can have no 
effect on it; and clairvoyance, mind reading and hypno¬ 
tism can be accounted for in this connection, which will 
be brought up later on. 

By having in mind what we have said about radio 
transmission, it can be readily seen the likeness of 
thoughts to what a radio receiver gets; a radio receiver 
only gets what it is tuned for, and a person only gets 
such thoughts as he is tuned for. It must be obvious, 
that if our theory is correct, that the quiet spirit of 


Treatment of Criminals. What is a Thought ? 51 

space, with all the force tensions and intelligence it is 
sensitive to, must be everywhere present, and caring 
nothing for time or space; and has made matter and all 
its motions and uses a definite plan and force tension 
to make each motion and organization of matter, and 
makes and keeps tally of all lines of thought, and has, 
and gives all the intelligence there is; then is not this 
view large enough, and strong enough and good enough 
to satisfy any thoughtful person for a God, worthy of 
honest worship? 


Chap. 14 


HYPNOTISM, MIRACLE, TRUTH AND 
HONESTY 

Hypnotism, mind reading and clairvoyance have 
already been referred to in connection with what was 
said about thoughts; explaining one seems to almost 
explain a long list of others we might name; auto sug¬ 
gestion and faith cures, so well practiced by Dr. Coue, 
and trance speaking, and fortune telling, and witch¬ 
craft, and ouija board stuff, and modern spiritualism, 
and so called miracles of all kinds, will go into one 
general explanation, if our theory is correct. 

We say a person’s conscious will and thought are the 
highest, and best, and strongest created things we have 
direct knowledge of; and that his subconscious will and 
thought are the next highest thing or faculty that he 
has. It must be obvious that to get anything, or do 
anything, through any of the ways named, that it must 
be done through a person’s giving up for the time, the 
use of his conscious faculties, and so at the best, will be 
getting only what might be got when a person is half 
asleep or from a high grade dream. A good natural 
orator in speaking, can get half of his ideas by the 
direct help of the personal affinity between himself and 
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the audience. What is called a trance speaking 
medium, can go into a trance by giving up all his per¬ 
sonal consciousness, for a time, and then his brain can 
connect with some past line of thought that it has the 
strongest affinity for, and so be able to talk it off in a 
natural manner, but without knowing it himself, and 
his hearers cannot be the wiser, because it is all so 
untrustworthy. 

If the attempt is made to connect with supposed 
departed spirits, and a seemingly genuine communica¬ 
tion was got, we say it would only be a line of thought 
which such departed person once had, which the 
medium by his blind affinity attraction had attracted 
from space, without such departed person being any 
way aware of it, even if the departed person really 
had a conscious existence at the time. 

When we know that a faculty we have increases by 
use, and that our conscious will and choice are our 
highest and best faculties, then the operation of giving 
them up in order to see what tricks we can play with 
our unconscious affinity attractions, must be a losing 
game, especially if the communications are taken as 
genuine. 

The reader’s attention is now called to the subject 
of truth and honesty. A practical application of our 
theory of force will oblige everyone to be honest to the 
extent that he is able to apply it. There are all grades 
of honesty. Lack of truth in what anyone thinks he 
knows obliges such a one to be more or less dishonest, or 
in other words, a person is obliged to be honest to the 


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extent that he is able to get true knowledge. In a gen¬ 
eral way everyone’s choice to do anything has a 
foundation of honesty, for they are always trying to 
benefit themselves, and this is a good and honest 
intention; and our theory, as has been said, holds that 
no one can have any incentive to do anything except 
it is for their own interest as they see it at the time. 
So as we have said, a person must have a real true idea 
of what is for his best interest before he can know 
enough to act honest in all his dealings, for we hold 
that it is easy to prove most solidly that the highest 
interest possible for any man is to be honest and fair 
in all his dealings with himself and his fellows. It is 
admitted that it is not easy, and probably not possible 
to prove to any good extent, to the average person, that 
such a one would be a gainer by being more honest, for 
this kind of knowledge, though learned by conclusive 
argument, needs real experience to give to it its needed 
force. Most people will say that they know it pays 
better to be honest than dishonest, but their actions 
prove that their knowledge is'defective. Most of us 
have found that the hardest thing in the world to do 
is to try to show a grown person that his knowledge 
is defective in a case like this. 

In giving our meaning for the word honesty, we say 
it is applied both to a person and to his action: as 
applied to a person it means that a person is honest to 
the extent that his motive for his action is intelligent, 
truthful and good; and that a good degree of honesty 
would require enough intelligence to very surely know 


Hypnotism, Miracle, Truth and Honesty 55 

that his best interest lay in a patient and sympathetic 
connection with his neighbor’s interest; and also that 
his own interest lays in studying up nature’s laws and 
carefully conforming himself to them, and in getting 
far enough in such knowledge so that he could see his 
best interest lay in honestly earning everything he 
gets, if possible. And if he receives a gift he should 
try to render an equivalent for it of some kind; a right 
kind of a “thank you” is often sufficient. It always 
requires more real knowledge if anyone is to increase 
his stock of honesty, for by our theory a person is as 
honest as his present degree of knowledge will allow 
him to be. The above statements will meet with some 
denial, but the writer feels very sure that careful think¬ 
ing will prove them to be very near correct and true, 
if the reader gets the writer’s meaning. 

The word truth is another name for honesty, and a 
defect in the truth about anything makes it a lie. 
There cannot be such a thing as a lie with no truth in 
it, for then it would not exist; all the existence a so- 
called lie can have is because of such good as is neces¬ 
sarily present; and all such lie’s effects would come 
from the defective good force that was present. It 
must be seen from our study of intelligent force thus 
far that all motions of matter or mind are good and 
honest in themselves, as far as they go, because they 
exactly fit intelligent natural law which absolutely 
obliges them to move as they do, instant by instant. 
Even a person’s ignorance, or the mistakes and 
trouble, and dishonesty which such ignorance obliges 


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to take place, are all mathematical resultants instant 
by instant of conditions present; so that it is an 
ignorant and dishonest thought, to blame others for 
anything they do, in any harsh manner. A person may 
know a little better than to do certain wrong things, 
but if he does them, it is because he did not have 
enough true knowledge in the matter of his best self 
interest. This needed knowledge cannot be got from 
any college or school; for it is a matter of experience 
and evolution. 





Chap. 15 

WHAT IS RELIGION: 


We have been trying to trace in a brief way what 
intelligent force is, in its connection with things, and its 
connection with man especially. Probably the highest 
grade of connection which intelligent force has with 
mankind is what is called religion. We think the word 
religion in its broader meaning stands for all that a 
person may think, or believe, or feel about a spirit 
power that he thinks is very much greater than 
himself. 

Religious thought and expression, compared with 
everyday thought and expression, is like comparing 
poetry and prose. Prose has to do with matter and 
poetry has to do with mind and spirit. With this 
view, every normal person must have some religion; 
and we may say it is true religion as far as it goes, for 
we have said everything that exists is good as far as it 
goes or exists. 

We may say that a person’s religion and religious 
creed or belief can never be any more honest and true 
than is the person’s everyday life and character; and 
that the person’s everyday experience and character is 
what shapes his religious thought, more than his 
religious thought shapes his everyday life and thought; 

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in other words, a person can never have an honester 
or better religion than his own naturally developed 
character. 

Poetry and good resolutions can never be any better 
than the prose part of their being carried out; and it 
may also be said that it takes a high grade of real char¬ 
acter to write good poetry and make good resolutions, 
but the character comes first. The various religions 
of the world were first thought out by highly advanced 
individuals, and then partially accepted by a larger or 
smaller class of others. The only proof of a good reli¬ 
gion is as to how it works when put in practice. Very 
few of the many religious creeds or beliefs have ever 
been more than partially put in practice, because 
mankind have not been honest and intelligent enough 
to carry out the high ideas of their religious founders; 
but the fact that they can intuitively see the good that 
their leaders had, and are willing and glad to profess 
and resolve to follow such good, proves that people 
generally are trying to get good, although they want 
to get it without properly paying for it. 

It looks as if everyone was so made that they were 
obliged to have religious beliefs of some kind, but that 
it required natural common sense and knowledge and 
honesty to be able to get or hold religious beliefs or 
ideas that were good for anything. If the highest 
and best that is in any of the four principal world 
religions were developed a little and put in practice, 
then any one of them would be a good workable 
religion. The backwardness of any religion lays, as 


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59 


we have said, with the people who profess it. The 
worst part of the trouble between different races is 
their inability to live up to their professed religious 
belief. We can say the same of church and denomina¬ 
tional quarrels that profess to be Christian. 

The fact that the largest and worst war the world 
ever had was begun and fought between nations who 
P"ofessed to have the highest type of what is called the 
Christian religion goes to prove what we have just 
Stated. And the common sense of the Hindus and 
Chinese and others has enabled them to plainly see the 
glaring inconsistency of the majority who profess to 
follow the teachings of their leader. Missionaries that 
are sent there by any of the Christian societies have a 
hard job in smoothing out such a bad contradiction. 
Probably nine-tenths of all our Christian religious 
teachers, the world over, have believed and taught that 
the Man Jesus sanctioned the use of bloody wars to 
forcibly stop what either party thought was evil; and 
the few who believed differently were in a position 
where they felt obliged to keep still about it. Now 
the actual experience of the war is so changing the 
views of the common people, that our religious 
teachers will be obliged to change a great deal in their 
teaching; thus showing that progress in true religion 
is caused by the common sense of the common people. 
The common people are finding out that evil cannot 
cure evil. Our prohibition law is a case in point as 
we have said. 

The writer figures out that the natural common sense 


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of the common people is to be trusted to deal with any 
human problem which comes out into the open before 
it, and that it is always a dangerous thing for a few 
leaders, whether college presidents or church ministers, 
or priests, or government rulers, or political party 
leaders, to get together in their different places, and try 
to manage the common people, without openly and 
fairly consulting them. To be still more explicit, we 
venture to say that if a new and perplexing problem 
came up in international relations before our U. S. 
senate, that if referred to the average citizen, would be 
more likely to be decided right than if placed before 
the average senator; and there is a reason for this; the 
senator is warped and pulled by his personal party 
interests, and his head is full of so much book stuff that 
he cannot be said to have good natural judgment; 
while the average citizen would be best situated to 
judge right. 


Chap. 16 

THE WORLD’S PEACE PROBLEM 

We have said that every thought and motion and 
event that takes place anywhere is always a mathe¬ 
matical resultant, instant by instant, of other motions 
or thoughts which had just preceded them, so that 
everything, small or large, that takes place has a direct 
and compelling cause, and if we have a bad condition 
of things, the only possible way to mend them is to 
truly find out their cause and remedy the cause. In 
looking at the conditions in our world today there are 
certainly many bad ones, also very many good ones, 
but it is the bad ones we wish to remedy for the good 
ones will care for themselves. We have in a brief way 
already traced our train of cause and effect from as 
near the beginning as we could get, up to the making 
of a man, and a lot of his actions, and we have held 
that intelligent, sympathetic affinity attractions was 
the spirit force working in the matter which it had 
made, which accomplished all this. Harmonious forces 
coming together built up many very fine organizations 
of matter; while the meeting of antagonistic forces had 
an opposite effect while they lasted. It is plain if our 
theory is correct that creation and evolution could not 
go on and improve without the trouble and pain 
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caused by this meeting of misfit forces, for the pain 
and trouble is nature’s way of preventing the uniting 
of misfits until they have been made to fit. Absolute 
Truth is the King of all the forces there are anywhere, 
and every misfit force needs more truth put into it to 
make it fit, and so ease off the troubles its misfit was 
obliged to make. In applying this view to human 
conditions, we shall hold that the words, Truth and 
Justice and Mercy and Goodness and Honesty, have 
practically the same meaning, and all stand for forces 
that will survive and harmonize all others in due time, 
while partial truth and partial justice and partial mercy 
and partial goodness and honesty cannot progress only 
as fast as their misfits are mended. These defective 
forces will not be destroyed, (no force can be 
destroyed) but in due time, perhaps a very long time, 
our laws of force action will oblige them all to be made 
into harmonious forces. This means that human 
antagonisms and disagreements will, on the whole, 
grow less as fast as true knowledge is acquired. 

We have seen that it is the law of all force attrac¬ 
tions, that the nearer they get together, the stronger 
the attraction, and especially so if there is a natural 
affinity between them. So an antagonistic force at a 
proper distance would not make any antagonistic show. 
By applying this view to our world condition just pre¬ 
vious to the beginning of the war, we shall see that our 
various inventions and quick modes of communication 
obliged the different nations and peoples to get and 
stay very close together, and so all their differences 
and natural disagreements would show up very rank. 


The World's Peace Problem 


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And, as a majority of the nations never knew any other 
way to settle large disagreements except to fight it out, 
then, of course, the war was an exact mathematical 
resultant of the situation, and so could not have been 
prevented. 

It is natural when opposing forces first meet to make 
a quick and fierce commotion, and then to slow down 
and begin to mend things and balance up. We had 
about four years of smash, and now (1923) about five 
years of picking up the pieces and trying to put them 
together again, so they will make a harmonious fit; 
and our problem, a very large one, is still on. It must 
be noted that these misfit forces that have made the 
trouble are all defective forces, that never can fit, and 
never ought to fit until they have somehow got rid of 
their ignorance and imperfections. 

We might name some of these defective and ignorant 
forces or influences. But in doing so we shall only 
have to make a list of the defects and weaknesses, and 
ignorance of mankind in general. 

It is a good force for a nation or an individual to 
want to better itself, but it becomes a misfit or defec¬ 
tive force when it disregards the other individuals or 
nation’s interest; and this will, and ought, to make 
tioub’e when so used. And there is no known way to 
mend this defect but to get enough true knowledge so 
rs to be able to see very plainly that each one’s best 
self interest lays in having a kindly and patient care 
for the other party. Under present conditions this 
will be a long time in being learned, for most all other 


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human defects will have to be learned and mended 
while doing it. 

We have said most all, if not quite all, defects in 
humanity are the natural and necessary result of 
insufficient knowledge, or accident, or lack of natural 
development. The most successful merchants and 
storekeepers are those who have learned that it is for 
their best personal self interest to treat their customers 
fairly and kindly. Some time the nations will find this 
principle will work with them; then we shall not need 
peace conferences. Meanwhile we shall have all de¬ 
grees of political greed and grab, and secret diplomacy 
and all the time be laying the blame to the other party; 
all of which is a very low grade of honesty, with a lot 
of real low ignorance mixed in; and it is not too much 
to say that many of our highest lawmakers are playing 
with twopenny politics in a very narrow way. 

The question as to the best practical way to get a 
majority of the people to have a correct knowledge of 
how to really have world peace is an open question, and 
a very important one. The writer has put in book 
form his own views in the matter, as well as he knows, 
well knowing that they are open to improvement, and 
even by himself in a few more years. A close study 
from day to day of our world situation as it is put in 
print for us will be a great help. What the Bolshevists 
are doing will be a good object lesson for the I. W. W.’s 
and communists and their sympathizers; while the out¬ 
come of the French invasion of the Ruhr district will 
be another lesson for those who believe in making 
others do right by antagonistic force. 


Chap. 17 
A SUMMARY 


In this last chapter the writer wishes to re-state and 
emphasize some of the principal points for which the 
foregoing chapters have been written. The race has 
always believed in a Spirit Power and a spirit world. 
There are many wise men of the East today who 
believe that the world of matter is not real, but is 
only a delusion; but they believe in an ultimate reality 
of what we might call intelligent Spirit. Others be¬ 
lieve in two worlds, the world of matter and the world 
of spirit, which are separate from each other. It is 
evident that all these beliefs are theories and not 
entirely proved. 

As our first chapter shows, the writer starts every¬ 
thing with the theory of an existing Intelligent Spirit 
Force, filling in an even and balanced way all the 
region of space, with nothing of what we call matter 
then existing; and perhaps time and space and motion 
did not exist, for balanced, even tension spirit force 
would have no use for time or space or motion. 

But when Force used part of itself to make what we 
call matter in the way briefly stated in the first chapter, 
then time was needed for matter to move, and space 
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in which to move. The writer has felt obliged to decide 
that all force and energy and electricity and magnetism 
and gravitation and chemical affinity are all of a spirit 
nature, and all parts of the One Spirit Force, and all 
are really spirit force tensions or attractions with no 
movement in themselves. And matter itself by being 
made of a collection of minute force tensions has a 
strong affinity attraction for all force tensions of every 
variety; therefore matter seems to be the tool used by 
all spirit force tensions to carry on world activities. 

The writer wishes to put especial emphasis on the 
theory that every existing thing, whether spirit or so- 
called matter, is an inseparable part of One Whole, 
and that this One Whole has exact unchanging intelli¬ 
gent plans to govern all its motions and force tensions; 
and that the part of Original Intelligent Spirit Force 
that was not used to make matter, fills evenly and 
quietly and sensitively all the region of space of the 
universe, and may be said to be the balance wheel of 
the universe. 

One of the principal laws of all force tensions is that 
they are all of different degrees of tension, and that 
they all have a pull between each other to try to get 
together and equalize, and that the shorter the distance 
between them, then the stronger the pull; and that this 
attractive pull is always attractive and never repulsive; 
and that where it seems to be repulsive, a close 
inspection will show a stronger pull in another direction. 

A good way to get an idea of Spirit Force tension 
attraction is to take two steel magnets and put the 


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67 


North pole of one near to the South pole of the other 
and carefully feel , the pull between them, then try to 
imagine what that pull is; and this is the nearest we 
can get to knowing what spirit tension pull is. So this 
is one of the points the writer wishes carefully to show, 
that it is this spirit attractive pull between different 
sized force tensions which all matter holds in varying 
amounts, which holds the particles of matter together 
and which causes all the motions of matter. And in 
this connection it is to be remembered that force itself 
has no motion, it being only a pure spirit attractive 
pull across space which works instant by instant every¬ 
where, whether in the large or in the small, in trying 
to equalize or balance itself, according to its own law 
of doing; and that it is this peculiar combination of 
matter and spirit force tensions which hinders such 
force tensions to come instantly to a quiet balance, for 
it takes time and space for spirit to work in matter, 
and the strong force tensions of the atoms of matter are 
held from weakening because of the way they were 
constituted, so that instead of gaining and coming 
nearer to a balance, the number and variety of force 
tensions are continually increasing, and growing finer 
and finer, and more complicated which results in con¬ 
tinued evolution, not only in material things, but in the 
mind and thoughts of man for by our theory a high 
grade of spirit force tensions have been able to make 
a close subconscious connection with the life of plants 
and animals, and a close conscious connection with the 
life of man; and so by the sensitive affinity attractions 


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which are inherent in all force tension attractions, it all 
results in the many varieties and actions of matter. 

Another point we wish here to emphasize is that 
matter depends on the strong spirit tensions of its 
atoms for its existence, and for the close affinity force 
attraction between all masses of matter, and for all its 
large and small motions, and for even the form or shape 
of its mass, and for its seeming ability to stay where it 
is put, for it is a balance of force tensions that holds 
matter where it is put. So that matter may be said to 
be a collection of peculiar spirit force tensions, that has 
to move in the direction of the strongest attractive pull 
of outside force tensions. 

A rifle bullet goes because of the very strong force 
tension suddenly developed by powder explosion. This 
very suddenly made force contained in the resultant gas, 
has a fearful strong attraction in every outward direc¬ 
tion, and so tries to go in every direction, taking its gas 
with it, but rigid matter holds it from going towards its 
attraction in all directions except the face of the base of 
the bullet; this, being a movable solid mass, is obliged 
to go in the only direction which is free for the attracted 
force tensions of the explosion to go; and it is the attrac¬ 
tive force of the gas which holds and prevents this high 
force tension from passing instantly through all matter 
to the balanced freedom of space. So the force in the 
gas in instant by instant transferred to the bullet which 
accelerates its speed till free of the gas; then it will take 
exactly the same amount of force to stop the bullet as it 
took to start it. 


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69 


The writer wishes to call the reader’s attention once 
more to the great importance of plainly seeing the dif¬ 
ference between harmonious and antagonistic forces. 
All forces below the conscious mind forces of man¬ 
kind are some grade of subconscious forces. The 
conscious mind forces of man are much the strongest 
that there are in the long run. These will forces of the 
race are increasing in strength and numbers now very 
fast. We all know that all the good we get comes from 
forces that meet harmoniously, and that all the evil and 
trouble we get is a direct result of misfit forces that do 
rot agree, and that the larger the forces are that do agree 
then, of course, the larger the gain and comfort. The 
strong point then from this plain statement is that man¬ 
kind being able to think and reason and invent, ought 
to be able to see that antagonistic force between man 
and man is always a loosing operation while it lasts, and 
so invent a way to change the antagonistic misfit 
situation to harmony. 

The writer thinks the right way has already been 
invented and put in print; and will work all right when 
put in practice; and that the laws of nature and force 
will oblige dishonest mankind to be more honest and so 
put the right way in practice in due time. 


















































































































